General news

The United Kingdom’s Public Sector Fraud Authority and the Centre entered into a counter fraud partnership on 23 February 2023. The partnership will help Australia and the UK to build capabilities to protect public sector entities from fraudsters.

During International Fraud Awareness Week (13-19 November 2022) we ran capability building webinars to help Australian Government entities strengthen their counter-fraud knowledge and expertise.

APSACC - Australia’s leading public sector anti-corruption conference was held mid-November 2022 and had more than 500 delegates from a wide range government entities. Officials spoke about the latest trends, research and practices in preventing, exposing and responding to corrupt conduct and corruption risks in the public sector.

On 25 October 2022, 15 participants commenced the Counter-fraud Practitioner Training Program Pilot. This pilot consisted of 5 full-day workshops across 5 weeks, covering a range of topics designed to address core skills required for a comprehensive counter-fraud approach. Learn more about the program, how our participants found it and our plans for 2023.

The Centre is undergoing a review of Section 10 of the Public Governance, Performance Accountability Rule 2014 (the Fraud Rule).

The United Kingdom's Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) was launched on 3 August 2022. The authority will be made up of counter-fraud and data experts, using best-in-class tools and advanced analytics to help departments and public bodies protect public money.

Robust frameworks and control environments are key to protecting the APS, and the businesses and citizens that we interact with, from the growing economic and societal problem of fraud. To help entities strengthen their counter-fraud approach, the centre developed a catalogue of common fraud controls.

We recently interviewed ASIC Integrity Risk Specialist Stella Birch, on their experience engaging with the centre's Capability Development Support Package.

The capability of people is important to the success of any endeavour. This is also true in our efforts to counter the increasing threat and complexity of fraud. Learn about how we plan to build counter-fraud expertise across Australian Government entities by embedding knowledge about leading practices and frameworks over the next few years.

Humans learn through story telling. Explore the benefits of using case studies to shine a light on fraud and to challenge stigmas around detecting fraud.